Born in New York Metropolis in 1958, the Bruce Museum’s 2025 artist-in-residence, Moses Ros, has all the time discovered that nature presents inspiration for his artwork. In HUMAN / NATURE — produced in response to the exhibition Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist (Bruce Museum, February 6–April 27, 2025) — Ros marshals colour and its absence to name consideration to points round environmental loss. Like Lazzell, whose white-line woodcuts fracture the world into chromatic planes separated by contours of uncovered white paper, Ros divides his compositions right into a sequence of amorphous, interlocking kinds. Throughout his work, mobiles, and sculptures, this brilliantly coloured, camouflage-like sample is punctuated by cut-outs of recognizable wildlife, making additional reference to Lazzell’s signature white-line method.
Whereas the luminous hues that pervade the present on the Bruce Museum talk Ros’s joyous appreciation of nature, in addition they act as a secondary type of camouflage, obscuring the darker realities that underlie his work. Developed within the service of struggle and looking, camouflage mimics and manipulates the looks of the panorama to hide the harmful forces mendacity in wait. On account of these and different human interventions, the species Ros depicts right here — the passenger pigeon, dodo chicken, and the regal fritillary butterfly, amongst others — are both endangered or already extinct. By positioning viewers inside an immersive setting of the artist’s making, this exhibition seeks to rejoice nature’s magnificence whereas additionally revealing humanity’s irrevocable affect on the pure world.
In regards to the Artist
Moses Ros is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker of Dominican descent who lives and works in New York Metropolis. He creates artworks to elevate the human spirit, utilizing brilliant colours, dynamic shapes, and interactive parts. Ros has had solo exhibitions on the Sugar Hill Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Yeshiva College Museum in New York, in addition to the Paterson Museum in New Jersey. He has additionally exhibited within the Yoryi Morel Gallery of the Institute of Tradition and Artwork in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Ros has acquired a number of public sculpture commissions from the New York Metropolis Division of Cultural Affairs, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the New York Metropolis Metropolitan Transportation Authority. His paintings is a part of public and company collections, together with the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, El Museo del Barrio, and the AT&T Assortment.
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